Slaves of the Churches A History, The Wellpark College didactic format

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Slaves of the Churches A History, The Wellpark College didactic formatIn recent years, stories of religious universities and institutions grappling with their slave owning past have made headlines in the news. People find it shocking that the Church itself could have been involved in such a sordid business. This timely book, the result of many years of research, is a study of the origins of this problem. Mary E. Sommar examines how the church sought to establish norms for slave ownership on the part of ecclesiastical